[SOLVED] Setting up new characters on a keyboard

dilbert_uk · 06-29-2020, 12:10 AM

I have a Spanish keyboard that misses the characters "<" and ">". Even with AltGr, I am getting characters like "«" and "»", but the character for "greater" and "minor" are actually missing.

The keyboard is a Cybertel CVB K107, but on the Web, I find other descriptions with the same model name and even the packaging it came with shows another photo where actually keys for "greater" and "minor" can be seen.

As I like this keyboard for its small size and the characters for foreign languages like ç and â, I only would like to have a simple key combination like CTRL-2 or so which would print "<", e.g.

I found a plethora of all sorts of info about xfce and keyboards, but unfortunately nothing about how to simply set up a new character with the ALT or CTRL key or any other keys suitable for that.

Add the moment, I help myself with the program xvkbd, where I select the ">" key with the mouse. But that's cumbersome for command line editing.

shruggy · 06-29-2020, 06:26 AM

Quick search for "Debian tecla mayor menor" turned up this and this.

DarrenDrapkin · 06-29-2020, 12:14 PM

If the previous post does not work try

Code:

man xmodmap

for some documentation on how to remap your keys.

DavidMcCann · 06-29-2020, 12:15 PM

The Spanish keyboard driver that I have uses, not AltGr+Sh with Z and X, but with full stop and comma. If neither solution works, come back and I'll show you how to alter the keyboard. Actually, in Peru your computer is probably set for the driver latam rather than es, and that expects < and > to be on the keyboard. What do you get from this command?

Code:

setxkbmap -print | grep symbols

Incidentally, xmodmap is generally deprecated these days as it predates the current XKB system.

dilbert_uk · 06-30-2020, 12:43 AM

Thanks a lot to everybody. AltGr + Sh did already the trick. It works with AltGr+Sh+z --> "<" and AltGr+Sh+x --> ">".

The language code on the PC is "es".

Quote:

acer-pc:~$ setxkbmap -print | grep symbols
xkb_symbols { include "pc+es+inet(evdev)" };
acer-pc:~

according to:

Quote:

acer-pc:~$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="es"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"
acer-pc:~$